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Geoff's Tour
A Journal of My Bicycle Touring

Journey Notes

(posted on 11 Jun 2012)

Burrrr. It was a really cold day. It was 3C when I left at about 7am. It was also raining lightly and the winds were blowing from the north west at 50-70 km/h. In other words, a bad winter storm in Vancouver. I bundled up as well as I could with my winter cycling gear but I was still pretty cold for half of the day's ride. Luckily the wind was at my back for most of the day so I covered a lot of distance very quickly. Usually my average speed drops slowly as the day progresses but today it increased. It was only 28 km/h after the first hour but ended up at 35 km/h by the end of 5 hours.

The pace was so good, I passed our original stop of Elkhorn, MB at the 135 km point and went on to my optional stop of Virden, MB at 169 km. I still had a lot of energy and thought I could go further but it's not a race and I didn't want to wipe myself out for tomorrow.

I passed a number of big wind generators on the route today. With the high winds today, they were likely generating a lot of power. I wonder if those blades that Rochelle saw yesterday were bound for this area?

Rochelle timed her chase very well, arriving at our camp spot about a minute before me. It is nice little campground just on the south side of Virden operated by the local Lion's club.